There is an index.php in the root, and an index.php in the theme (they both seem the same). Which one does wordpress draw-on? When I put an “underconstruction” temporary PHP file in the root, it works. When I modify the original one in the root, my blog goes blank.
I started playing with the indexes, renaming, testing. In the end, I left the one in the root alone, and modified the one in the theme, and it took. Not sure if this is how to correctly do things, but it’s a work-around that seems to work, so far. I wonder how anyone not knowing HTML and troubleshooting could deal with this.
There is an index.php in the root, and an index.php in the theme (they both seem the same)
If their content is/was the same – that’s a big problem; then you didn’t upload WP correctly!
You should always edit ONLY the template files in a theme directory. Nothing else.